National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 401(k) Pension Plan
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association · Arlington, VA · EIN 530116145 · Plan 444 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
This is a pooled multiple-employer plan, so its participant and asset totals span many unrelated employers.
What National Rural Electric Cooperative Association put into the plan, per active participant
$4,449
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association put $4,449 into this plan for each of its 61,593 active participants in plan year 2024. That is the whole employer side, matching money, profit sharing, non-elective and safe-harbor contributions and reallocated forfeitures together, because the Form 5500 reports them on one line, so it is not the match rate. This filing covers many unrelated employers under one plan, so the figure is an average across all of them rather than one employer's behaviour.
It is kept out of every peer group and takes no score.
What this figure cannot separate: how much National Rural Electric Cooperative Association pays, and how much it puts in
This is dollars, not a rate. A Form 5500 carries no payroll, so the figure reflects both how much the employer puts in and how much the employer pays: two plans running the same formula report different amounts when one pays better. Crossing the peer group with industry holds most of that difference still, and none of it disappears.
This is one plan year, not an average. A true-up, a plan merger or a one-off contribution moves a single year on its own.
Source: Form 5500 filing for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, received by the DOL October 14, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
What the plan cost, per participant
$585.22
The plan paid $585.22 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, more expensive than 100% of plans with 5,000+ participants. The middle plan of that size paid $54.84.
Why a plan this big pays less per person before anything else
Bigger plans pay less per head by construction, because the same negotiated bill divides across more people. That is why this ranking sits inside the plan's own size cohort and is never taken across all plans.
Schedule H reports only what came out of plan assets. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees taken inside fund expense ratios, never appear here, so this is a floor and not the all-in cost.
401(k) Monitor Score
Not scored
This is a pooled plan covering many unrelated employers, so its figures are averages across a client book. It takes no score, and it is kept out of every peer group so that it does not move anybody else's standing.
It keeps whichever of the two it does report, above. Nothing is filled in from an average, from another year or from another plan, because a two-part score computed on one part is a different measure wearing the same name.
What the score would read, on a filing that carries both: Where this plan stands against plans of its size and industry on two amounts its Form 5500 reports: employer money in per active person, and plan-paid cost per person. It reads no match formula, no vesting schedule and no fund lineup, because a Form 5500 states none of them.
On this page: where the match terms are stated · what to check next · every figure on the filing · fees itemised · the plans this one is ranked against · service providers
The match and vesting terms, from a Form 11-K
The match formula and the vesting schedule are stated in a Form 11-K, which is filed only by employers whose plan holds company stock. A Form 5500 reports neither.
What National Rural Electric Cooperative Association puts in
Not in public filings for this employer
We have no SEC Form 11-K for this employer, and the Form 5500 this page is built from does not report match terms.
Two places state the terms in full: your plan’s Summary Plan Description, which your employer must provide on request, and your recordkeeper’s site, the one you log in to for your balance.
What you contribute to collect all of it
Not in public filings for this employer
The rate that collects the full match is part of the match formula, which a Form 5500 does not report.
Vesting score
Not scored
The vesting schedule is stated in a Form 11-K, and we have none for this employer.
A schedule this cannot read at whole-year anniversaries is left without a number rather than given a middle one.
What the plan costs, against plans of its size
100th percentile
$585.22 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, more expensive than 100% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
What to check next
This filing is not about one employer
One Form 5500 covers many unrelated employers here, so every figure on this page is an average across all of them. The match, the vesting schedule and the fees that apply to one worker are set by that worker’s own employer, and none of the three is stated in this filing.
What to ask about the fees
This plan paid $585.22 per participant out of plan assets, more than 100% of plans with 5,000+ participants, where the middle plan paid $54.84. The filing does not say what the difference buys. Two questions put that to a benefits or HR team: what the recordkeeping and administration contract costs, and how much of it comes out of participant accounts rather than being paid by National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. The lines this total is made of are further down.
Your own numbers are not on this page
Every figure here is the whole plan for plan year 2024, taken from one filing and divided by headcounts. Your own contribution rate, your balance and the fees taken from your account are on your recordkeeper’s site. What you may put in during a year is set by the IRS and not by the plan: this year’s limits ↗.
Key figures
| Total plan assets, end of year | $16,840,459,887 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $16,717,296,057 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 80,880 |
| Of which active | 61,593 |
| Plan type | Multiple employer |
| Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against. | 5,000+ participants |
| Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024The rest came from employees, who put in $482,064,975. The share falls when employees save more, so a plan whose staff contribute heavily reads lower here through no act of the employer. It is printed as a fact and it is not part of the score. | 36% |
Plan-paid administrative expenses
The plan paid $47,332,687 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 80,880 participants: $585.22 per participant.
| Contract administrator fees | $26,188,572 |
|---|---|
| Professional fees | not reported in filing |
| Investment management fees | $13,971,604 |
| Other administrative fees | $6,730,777 |
These are plan-paid expenses from Schedule H only. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees embedded in fund expense ratios, never appear here. This figure is a floor, not the all-in cost, and a low number is not “free”.
The plans this one is ranked against
Fees on this page are ranked against the 5,000+ participant cohort, where the median plan pays $54.84 per participant. The sponsor files from Virginia, one of 1,765 plans on file there, at a median of $142.39 per participant. Its business code places the plan at utilities, one of 407 on file, which run to a median of $138.21.
Plans of a similar size in Virginia
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| Northrop Grumman Savings PlanNorthrop Grumman Corporation | 154,894 | $75.29 |
| Dollar Tree Retirement Savings PlanDollar Tree, Inc. | 83,276 | $17.32 |
| Advance Auto Parts, Inc. 401(k) PlanAdvance Stores Company, Inc. | 67,469 | $21.97 |
| Capital One Financial Corporation Associate Savings PlanCapital One Financial Corporation | 66,717 | $214.17 |
Service providers (Schedule C)
Recordkeeper: Nreca (as filed: “NRECA”)
| Provider | Service codes | Direct comp. ($) | Indirect comp. ($) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nreca | 29, 50, 28, 15, 37, 38, 14 | 26,188,572 | not reported |
| T Rowe Price Associates Inc. | 51, 50, 68, 28 | 5,055,832 | 0 |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Co | 68, 51, 28, 50, 24, 21 | 3,217,495 | not reported |
| Voya Institutional Plan Services | 50, 16 | 1,843,033 | not reported |
| Blackrock Financial Management Inc. | 51, 50, 28 | 1,597,342 | not reported |
| Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. | 51, 50, 28 | 1,139,434 | not reported |
| Decisionpath Consulting | 50, 16 | 908,992 | not reported |
| Lockton Companies | 50, 22 | 869,500 | not reported |
| Capital International Inc. | 51, 50, 28 | 819,264 | not reported |
| Lsv Asset Management | 51, 50, 28 | 733,243 | not reported |
| Pacific Investment Management Co | 51, 50, 28 | 675,498 | 0 |
| Optomi LLC | 50, 16 | 524,002 | not reported |
| Chesapeake Benefit Partners LLC | 50, 16 | 489,413 | not reported |
| Enterprise Iron Fis Inc. | 50, 16 | 432,459 | not reported |
| Pinnacle Data Systems LLC | 50, 38 | 405,970 | not reported |
| Convergenz LLC | 50, 16 | 364,944 | not reported |
| Experis It Services | 50, 16 | 324,329 | not reported |
| State Street Global Advisors Trust | 51, 19, 28, 18 | 309,476 | 0 |
| Neuberger Berman Group LLC | 51, 28 | 294,021 | 0 |
| State Street Bank | 62, 51, 99, 63, 50, 28, 25, 19 | 290,171 | 0 |
| Fis Capital Markets US LLC | 50, 16 | 281,344 | not reported |
| Sirius Computer Solutions Inc. | 50, 16 | 179,550 | not reported |
| Rvk Inc. | 50, 16 | 129,998 | not reported |
| Signature Commercial Solutions LLC | 50, 16 | 128,832 | not reported |
| Bdo USA LLP | 50, 16 | 98,926 | not reported |
| Robert Half | 50, 16 | 94,354 | not reported |
| Usm Business Systems Inc. | 50, 16 | 92,219 | not reported |
| Excella Inc. | 50, 16 | 87,435 | not reported |
| Cliftonlarsonallen LLP | 50, 10 | 70,714 | not reported |
| Aston Carter Inc. | 50, 16 | 57,821 | not reported |
| Spectrum Financial Services | 50, 16 | 47,840 | not reported |
| Thompson Hine LLP | 50, 29 | 44,144 | not reported |
| Newport Trust Company | 50, 16 | 39,667 | not reported |
| Bloomberg Finance Lp | 50, 49 | 31,801 | not reported |
| Reasonn LLC | 50, 49 | 31,662 | not reported |
| International Software Systems Inc. | 50, 16 | 29,655 | not reported |
| Adp Inc. | 50, 49 | 28,078 | not reported |
| Wells Fargo Bank | 50, 49 | 22,214 | not reported |
| Nasdaq Information LLC | 50, 49, 16 | 18,959 | not reported |
| Dexian LLC | 50, 16 | 12,452 | not reported |
| Harter Secrest And Emery LLP | 50, 29 | 10,895 | not reported |
| Groom Law Group Chartered | 50, 29 | 10,829 | not reported |
| Capricorn Systems Inc. | 50, 16 | 10,766 | not reported |
| Zovaya Corporation | 50, 16 | 9,436 | not reported |
| Davis Companies | 50, 16 | 7,712 | not reported |
| Abel Noser Solutions | 50, 49, 16 | 6,203 | not reported |
| Stevens And Lee Pc | 50, 29 | 5,564 | not reported |
| Alku Technologies LLC | 50, 16 | 5,458 | not reported |
| Raymond James And Associates | 71 | 0 | 108,100 |
| Jp Morgan Securities | 71 | 0 | 61,008 |
| Morgan Stanley Co | 71 | 0 | 50,754 |
| Wells Fargo Securities LLC | 71 | 0 | 32,553 |
| Goldman Sachs And Co | 71 | 0 | 32,474 |
| Virtu Americas | 71 | 0 | 27,765 |
| Jefferies And Company | 71 | 0 | 27,445 |
| Barclays Capital | 71 | 0 | 26,548 |
| Bofa Securities | 71 | 0 | 26,417 |
| National Financial Securities LLC | 71 | 0 | 24,424 |
| UBS Securities LLC | 71 | 0 | 20,504 |
| Oppenheimer And Company | 71 | 0 | 13,883 |
| Rbc Capital Markets | 71 | 0 | 13,876 |
| Cowen And Company LLC | 71 | 0 | 13,482 |
| Bnp Paribas Securities | 71 | 0 | 11,065 |
| Pershing LLC | 71 | 0 | 9,890 |
| Robert W Baird Co Incorporated | 71 | 0 | 8,982 |
| UBS Ag | 71 | 0 | 5,702 |
| BMO Capital Markets | 71 | 0 | 7,429 |
| Liquidnet Inc. | 71 | 0 | 6,721 |
| Citigroup Global Markets | 71 | 0 | 6,546 |
| Citadel Securities Institutional | 71 | 0 | 5,757 |
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20251014161215NAL0003254097001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 28, 2026 |
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Cite this page
401(k) Monitor, "401(k) Pension Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251014161215NAL0003254097001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.